Abd-ar-Rahman ibn Samura Quotes

7th-century general of the Rashidun caliphate

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Samura (Arabic: عبد الرحمن بن سمرة, died c. 670 in Basra) was a general of the Rashidun caliphate and the succeeding Umayyad Caliphate, and caliphal governor of Sijistan in the 7th century CE.

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…Their idol of Zûr was of gold, and its eyes were two rubies. The zealous Musalmãns cut off its hands and plucked out its eyes, and then remarked to the Marzabãn how powerless was his idol to do either good or evil…

On reaching Dãwar, he surrounded the enemy in the mountain of Zûr, where there was a famous Hindu temple.